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 to teach and instruct youth in reading, writing, and arithmetic, whereby we are inclined to have a favourable regard unto you; we therefore by these presents grant unto you the said Walter Gaile, in whose fidelity we greatly confide, our license and faculty to teach and instruct the youth of the parish of Mayfield, as a schoolmaster in reading, writing,, and arithmetic.

"Given under the seal of our office this sixteenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven. (Signed)	"JOHN BUTTTERWORTH, Doctor of Laws, Dean and Commissary, &c. &e."

"I was called upon by Bassett, who came to quarrel with me on account of my correcting his boy for some enormous crimes he had been guilty of, all which he foolishly denied at first, and insisted upon it that his boy was unjustly corrected; yet in the end he confessed everything that the boy was beat for.

"11th May.- Dick Pentecost was sent to school to be taught free, notwithstanding the list was full before, by the order of old Kent, for no other reason than his father was poor. I told him I had enow without him, and he might tell the old man, that when I had two of his family I had as many as were appointed.

"29th.- The old man entered the school with George Wilmhurst and Eliz. Hook, and said they should be taught free I asked him how many I was to teach free; without any further ado, be flew into a violent passion. Among other abusive and scurrilous language he said I was an upstart, runnagate, beggarly dog; that I picked his pocket, and that I never knew how to teach a school in my life. He again called me upstart, runnagate, beggarly dog, clinched his fist in my face, and made a motion to strike me, and declared be would break my head. He did not strike me, but withdrew in a wonderful heat, and ended all with his general maxim, 'The greater scholler, the greater rogue.'

"30th.- I told Mr. Dungate of my entering on the assistant hop business at Rotherfield with the approbation of Mr. Baker, of which he also approved. I then delivered a paper which ran thus :-

"'Whereas the deplorable situation of the schollers of the free school, arising from their being confined in a close room